Workflows/Keep context visible

• Keep context visible
  • Source beside draft, note beside plan: this tour builds a working layout step by step — park a page in the right sidebar, collect places in tabs, split the window for true side-by-side, and save the arrangement as a workspace. Each part ends with what you should see. The shortcut map is Features/Tips & shortcuts.
• Park a source in the right sidebar
  • 1. On the page you're writing, Shift-click a link (or a bullet's dot) to open it in the right sidebar. It's a full editor, not a preview — you can write in either place.
  • 2. Two more ways to park things: in Ctrl+K, press Shift+Enter on any page or block result; while editing, Ctrl+Shift+O sends the link at the caret across.
  • 3. Crowded? Fold an item with its arrow and keep just its title in reach, or use the sidebar's ⋯ menu for Collapse all, Expand all, and Close all. Folding or closing never strands half-typed text — Tine commits the active edit first.
  • 4. Press t r to hide the whole sidebar and t r again to bring it back just as it was; its items are restored with your session.
  • What you should see: the source parked beside your page, both editable — and it stays parked while the main page navigates elsewhere.
• Gather places in tabs, and pin the ones you live in
  • 1. Middle-click a link, a search hit, or a bullet's dot to open it in a background tab — you never leave the page you're on.
  • 2. Navigating to a page that's already open just focuses its tab instead of making a duplicate (Settings → Editor → Switch to an already-open tab when navigating turns that off).
  • 3. Double-click a tab to pin it. Pinned tabs gather at the left and hold their content: ordinary navigation from one opens a fresh tab instead, and closing a pinned tab asks first — an accidental Ctrl+W can't eat it.
  • 4. Closed one too soon? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the last closed tab with its history. When titles stop fitting, the ⌄ Show all tabs button at the strip's edge lists them in full — activate, pin, close, or drag to reorder there.
  • What you should see: the same tabs, pins included, come back after a restart — and as session state outside your graph, none of this ever adds a file to it.
• Split the window for true side-by-side
  • 1. Desktop only: Ctrl+click (Cmd on Mac) any [[link]], tag, or block reference to open it in another pane — with a single pane, Tine splits right for it. In Ctrl+K, Alt+Enter does the same for the highlighted result. The direct bindings: Ctrl+Alt+\ splits right with a copy of the current tab, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+\ splits down.
  • 2. Each pane keeps its own tab strip and its own back/forward history — Alt+Left and Alt+Right step through it, even mid-edit.
  • 3. Drag the seam between panes to resize them. Drag a tab onto another pane's strip to move it there, onto a pane's body to append it, or onto a seam or pane edge to split that spot and drop the tab into the new pane — Esc cancels a drag mid-way.
  • 4. From the keyboard, Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9 focus panes in reading order, Ctrl+Alt+←↑↓→ moves focus to the nearest pane in that direction, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+←↑↓→ moves the active tab there instead. Moving the last page tab out of a pane closes the emptied pane; a journals feed keeps its last tab.
  • 5. Prefer staged control? Esc climbs from editing to block selection into pane-select mode — a hint pill at the bottom tells you when it's on. Arrows step between panes, seams, and window edges; Enter on a seam makes a mirror split; typing opens the new pane with the search box pre-filled. Another Esc backs out.
  • What you should see: two note panes that scroll, navigate, and keep tabs independently — source and draft side by side, never fighting over one cursor.
• Save the arrangement as a workspace
  • 1. With the layout where you want it — splits, every pane's tabs and histories, both sidebars — click the workspace name at the top of the left sidebar and choose + New workspace; name it once.
  • 2. Come back to it from the same switcher: hover the name for a quick-switch list, or click it for the full menu with Rename and Delete. Each graph keeps its own set, and the active one comes back after a restart.
  • What you should see: the saved pane layout, tabs and histories, sidebars, and Recent return together. Workspaces are device-local session state — saving, switching, or deleting one never writes to your graph.
• Clear everything else away
  • t f (focus mode) hides the sidebars and toolbar so the screen is just text — on desktop it also takes the window full screen. Hover the top edge to reach the toolbar again; layered Esc steps back out.
  • t b fades every block except the one you're editing. Settings → Appearance → Dim in focus mode can dim for you while focus mode is on — without rewriting your manual t b choice.
  • On a phone the layout stays one page: the sidebars open as overlays (dismiss with the shaded edge, Esc, or Android Back), and tabs and splits are desktop-only.
• Where next
  • Features/Tips & shortcuts has the compact shortcut map, Start/Where things are is the plain map of the places used here, and Workflows/Find and revisit covers getting back to anything you parked.